Vanderbilt students travel to Washington, D.C., for science policy event
Oct. 27, 2014—The event's panels addressed policy and advocacy processes, as well as career-oriented topics. Twenty-six Vanderbilt students explored the opportunities and challenges of setting policy on federal issues and advocacy related to science, technology, engineering and math during a two-day immersion event in Washington, D.C. The Oct. 16-17 workshop was designed to explain and demonstrate federal...
New faculty: Dugan explores complexities of Alzheimer’s
Oct. 20, 2014—Laura Dugan, Abram C. Shmerling M.D. Professor of Alzheimer’s and Geriatric Medicine (Susan Urmy/Vanderbilt) Perhaps the most challenging aspect of being the physician of a patient with Alzheimer’s disease is that there’s nothing positive to offer. For now, there are no proven therapies and no known cures. Laura Dugan says that a patient’s inability to...
DeBaun’s Levi Watkins Lecture highlights the power of purpose
Oct. 16, 2014—On hand for Tuesday’s lecture were, from left, André Churchwell, M.D., Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., Levi Watkins Jr., M.D., and Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D. (photo by Susan Urmy) by Josh Brown Throughout his career in medicine, Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., has found moments to fight the status quo. As a medical student at Stanford University,...
Recognizing educational myopia, accepting feedback
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VUSM student lands AMA Foundation award
Oct. 9, 2014—by T.J. Utset Anna Garcia, a fourth-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student, has received a Physicians of Tomorrow award from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation. Garcia was one of 21 medical students across the country to be selected and will receive the $10,000 Johnson F. Hammond Scholarship to award her achievements and interest...
Vanderbilt’s DeBaun to deliver annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture
Oct. 9, 2014—Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., J.C. Peterson Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Vanderbilt, will be the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture. Michael R. DeBaun, M.D. The address, “Academic Activism: Choosing the Right Time and the Right Purpose,” will be held Tuesday, Oct. 14, at noon in 208 Light Hall. The...
VUSM’s history of diversity efforts commemorated
Oct. 2, 2014—It has been nearly 50 years since the first black student entered Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), and Vanderbilt has come a long way since then. On Sept. 25 the Office of Diversity Affairs commemorated the diversity of its student body, faculty and staff with a plaque and reception to honor past administrators of...
New Medical Faculty 2014
Sep. 30, 2014—A complete list of new School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty for 2014 School of Nursing Meghan Anderson, M.S.N., CPNP-AC Instructor in clinical nursing Carole Bartoo, M.S.N., R.N., AGNPCNP-BC Instructor in clinical nursing Susan Beaird, M.S.N., CPNP-PC Instructor in clinical nursing Denise Billingsley, M.S.N., FNP-BC Instructor in clinical nursing Cherry Chassan, D.N.P., ACNP-BC...
Student-run Shade Tree Clinic debuts opthalmology service
Sep. 25, 2014—At the Shade Tree Clinic are, from left, fourth-year VUSM student Alexandra May, Uyen Tran, M.D., and fourth-year student Kenny Taubenslag. (photo by Mike Pilla) When the Shade Tree Clinic first opened its doors in 2005 the patients received primary care services in the compact space of a cramped doublewide trailer. In 2012 the clinic moved...
Virtual conference EDUCAUSE 2014 open to Vanderbilt community
Sep. 25, 2014—Vanderbilt IT, along with the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will host the 2014 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference’s Virtual Conference Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 at several locations across campus and the medical center. Interested faculty, staff and students can choose from both exclusive online sessions and live-streamed concurrent conference sessions....